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ABOUT ME
Dr Nia D Thomas is a strategic, values-driven senior leader with more than twenty-five years’ experience across the NHS, civil service, local government and the charitable sector, holding Chief Executive and Director-level roles throughout her career.
Alongside her executive work, Nia is a leadership consultant, author of The Self-Awareness Superhighway, and host of the Knowing Self Knowing Others Podcast.
Read more about Nia and her career experience
values
Care, Respect, Creativity and Learning sit at the heart of everything at Knowing Self Knowing Others. These four values shape how Nia works and what she stands for as a leader, consultant and thinker. They show up in every interaction — from prioritising the wellbeing of others and treating people with dignity, to embracing innovative thinking and committing to continuous growth and learning. On this page you’ll find out what each value means in practice and how together they underpin KSKO’s mission to develop self-aware leaders who build kinder, more respectful and creative working relationships.
WORKSHOPS
If you have a leaders learning event or team away day planned, Nia can come along and deliver a dynamic workshop for you. Appealing to people who learn in different ways, Nia’s self-aware leadership workshop will give people to get up out of their seats, learn about self-awareness, share their thoughts and ideas and set objectives for future growth and development.
Head over to the Workshops page to find out more about what previous workshop attendees have had to say.
The Visible Leader Podcast with me, Nia Thomas
Dr Nia Thomas is a thought leader in self-aware leadership and practices self-aware leadership every single day in her role as Director in a Children’s Charity.
She has an allergic reaction when she hears the phrase ‘you shouldn’t care what anyone else thinks’.
We talked about the perils of heeding that advice and how to avoid going the other way and becoming a total people pleaser!
Topics we covered:
How to become aware of your blind spots.
The pros and cons of 360 feedback.
The cautions around self-awareness. How to avoid overthinking every encounter you have with your team.
How you can be an authentic leader whilst taking others’ opinions into account.
How to judge when constructive feedback is useful or noise that should be disregarded.
Podcast Transcripts: Ep 54 with Gerardo Segat
Transcript of The Knowing Self Knowing Others Podcast. Discussing self-aware leadership with thinkers around the globe, ep.54 with Gerardo Segat
Podcast Transcripts: Ep 53 with Jannine Barron
Transcript of The Knowing Self Knowing Others Podcast. Discussing self-aware leadership with thinkers around the globe